C++ can be very time consuming. I took a C++ class this semester, to learn some programming-the class took up a great deal more time than I expected, time I would have rather spent on the classes for my major.

Just wait until you get into your upper level courses and have HW that can't be solved by hand. Not being good at C, or Matlab will be the death of you. We had one hw assignment in Vibrations that all had to be done with Matlab. The whole class pulled an all nighter on that HW, sigh...it really should have been a take home test not a HW.

Just wait until you get into your upper level courses and have HW that can't be solved by hand. Not being good at C, or Matlab will be the death of you. We had one hw assignment in Vibrations that all had to be done with Matlab. The whole class pulled an all nighter on that HW, sigh...it really should have been a take home test not a HW.

Hahaha i know what you mean, but what about the class projects? it's like every class has a huge project!.

For this semester, i have to design the structural blueprints for a building in wood, another in steel and another in reinforced concrete. I am way behind on this!, and i also have a highway in mountains , i haven't finished designing!. Not to mention 2 budgets i need to finish, one about a building, another about a highway. I got one halfway done, another i haven't even started.

In the summer I'm taking PDE's and Complex Variables. How hard are those classes?

I remember most of my Calc 1-3. Not much of my DEQ though, I can manage. A little of Laplace Transforms. It's been two years since my last math course, and I forgot alot of little stuff. Integration by parts, the integral or derivative of some functions. It's in the back of my memory banks somewhere, but if you dont use it, you lose it.

Just wondering.. generally, is it implicitly assumed that students in Pmath come from the advanced sections of the 100 and 200 math courses?

-first year student :tongue:

Not necessarily, although the majority of the students taking them do come from the advanced sections. If you haven't taken the advanced courses, then PMATH 331 is more or less an essential prereq if you want to take the PMATH analysis courses.

In the summer I'm taking PDE's and Complex Variables. How hard are those classes?

I remember most of my Calc 1-3. Not much of my DEQ though, I can manage. A little of Laplace Transforms. It's been two years since my last math course, and I forgot alot of little stuff. Integration by parts, the integral or derivative of some functions. It's in the back of my memory banks somewhere, but if you dont use it, you lose it.

I've never taken PDE's but for Complex Variables, well you don't need to know anything.

For Complex Variables, I would just suggest getting a Schaum's Outline for it. I never did and that was my biggest mistake. I get them from now on.

Not necessarily, although the majority of the students taking them do come from the advanced sections. If you haven't taken the advanced courses, then PMATH 331 is more or less an essential prereq if you want to take the PMATH analysis courses.